String trios 1 & 2 (1996)

Hindemith composed his String Trio No. 1 in 1924, when he was simultaneously a virtuoso performer on the viola and a founding member of the Amar String Quartet and gaining notoriety as an enfant terrible composer. (...) In the immediate aftermath of World War I, European composers, particularly in France and Germany, consciously sought new modes of expression that came to be known in France as neo-classicism, most notably in the works of Stravinsky and the Parisian group Les Six. (...) In Germany at this time, the neoclassical aesthetic found its equivalent in the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), that was embodied by the composer Paul Hindemith, whose music during this period displayed the “return to” emphasis on contrapuntal textures, linear energy, and clarity and conciseness of form; in a word, anti-romantic. (laphil.com)